[1] [2] [3] Health: New dead case of swine flu in Sofia City of Sofia >> Friday, 2009-11-06 10:55 Source: BNR A 53-year-old man died of swine flu in Sofia. This brings the death toll in the country up to six. The number of infected people in the capital continues to increase and 50 schools have already been closed. An epidemic was declared in Sofia-district, Blagoevgrad, Dupnitsa and Kustendil. With them the districts declared to have a flu epidemic rose to 19. Laboratory tested and confirmed to have swine flu people in the country are already 450.
Business: Contracts for winter road cleaning will be signed soon Town of Ihtiman >> Wednesday, 2009-11-04 19:27 Source: klassa.bg The first contracts for winter cleaning and current repairs are expected to be signed in six regional road offices in a few days. The commissions which examined and evaluated the offers submitted by candidate companies have already completed their work and issued official opinions in Vidin , Dobrich , Kyustendil , Targovishte , Blagoevgrad and Stara Zagora , reported yesterday for Klassa the Road Infrastructure Agency. The agency explained that the contractors for the major part of the concluded ... Accidents: Police bust illegal production of spirit drinks in Sofia and the region around City of Sofia >> Tuesday, 2009-10-06 15:24 Source: Focus Agency Crime-busters have bust illegal production of spirit drinks, the press center of the Interior Ministry announced. The operation took place in Sofia and the region around the capital after the police were alerted by the International Federation of Spirits Producers. The police seized 82 cardboard boxes with 867 bottles of spirits of different brands and many fake excise labels. The damage is worth more than BGN 24,000. The police seized also four computer systems with unlicensed software worth approxim...
Business: Inersnack Bulgaria plans to build crisps factory in town of Ihtiman Town of Ihtiman >> Monday, 2009-06-08 10:00 Source: dnevnik.bg Inersnack Bulgaria, a subsidiary of Germany’s leading manufacturer of salted crisps and snacks, will go ahead with its plans to build a crisps factory in the western town of Ihtiman in the face of the economic downturn and the shrinking markets. The EUR 8.3 million project is scheduled for completion in 2010 , Inersnack Bulgaria financial director Yuliana Nikolova said. One of the first market players to source its raw materials almost exclusively from domestic producers, Inersnack Bulgaria has recorde... Transport: Bulgarian State Railways EAD is near to bankruptcy Town of Ihtiman >> Tuesday, 2009-04-21 09:45 Source: Darik Radio Bulgarian State Railways EAD (BDZ) is near to bankruptcy over lack of work. For the first time in the 140-year history of BDZ, no freight trains were traveling in Northern Bulgaria. Only small trains traveled in Southern Bulgaria. T he oil company Lukoil Bulgaria is no longer transporting fuels by train, because the repair of the oil pipe from its refinery to Ihtiman finished. " The situation is bad, but we are dealing with it. We paid the April salaries. The number of orders have decreased, though, an... Accidents: 10 people detained after accidents in the Roma neighborhood of Ihtiman Town of Ihtiman >> Monday, 2009-03-30 16:05 Source: Focus Agency Ten people have been detained after a brawl in the western town of Ihtiman , the press center of Interior Ministry announced. On Monday at about 8:00 a.m. the District Police Directorate in Sofia received a signal about a serious problem in the Roma neighborhood of the town of Ihtiman . Gendarmerie officers and police officers from the regional police departments in the towns of Ihtiman , Samokov and Kostenets and from the District Police Directorate in Sofia arrived on the site and established t... Business: Company invests EUR 10 million in support potato production in region of Ihtiman Village of Jivkovo >> Friday, 2009-03-27 11:20 Source: News.bg Intersnack Bulgaria will invest 10 million euro in support of the Bulgarian production of potatoes and sunflower in 2009. 9 million euro will be invested in a plant for chips production in Ihtiman and 1 million euro - in promotion of the Bulgarian potato and sunflower producers. Some days ago two farmers from the village of Zhivkovo received a 10 000 euro bonus for extra potato yield – 1200 tones from 500 decares, which is with 600 tones more than the initially negotiated. The two farmers p... Business: Inersnack Bulgaria invests BGN 18 million on construction of a crisps factory in Ihtiman Town of Ihtiman >> Tuesday, 2009-03-17 08:00 Source: Dnevnik.bg Inersnack Bulgaria, a subsidiary of Germany’s leading manufacturer of salted crisps and snacks, will spend BGN 18 million on the construction of a crisps factory in Ihtiman , near Sofia . The company has earmarked a further BGN 2 million to encourage Bulgarian potato growers. In addition, it will launch a BGN 600,000 campaign to promote salted snacks consumption by special arrangement of shop shelves and good service. Food and fast-moving consumer goods are two in just a handful of industries expected ... Business: Sveta Voda JSC Sofia gets concession for Kostenets mineral water Town of Kostenets >> Thursday, 2009-03-05 13:07 Source: Banker The government has accepted the proposal of Sveta Voda JSC Sofia to terminate by mutual consent the concession contract for extraction of mineral water from the deposit Kostenets, Sofia District, announced the government information service. The concessionaire Sveta Voda JSC has discharged its duties to build bottling factory for mineral water and has paid the minimal annual concession fee regularly.
Society: Seminar in Hissarya: The number of abandoned children increased Town of Hissarya >> Sunday, 2009-02-22 08:14 Source: StandartNews The crisis did not spare the kids. The number of abandoned young Bulgarians has increased as a result of the parents` financial problems, it emerged at a seminar of the Bulgarian Ministry of Social Policy and Labour, held in Hissar , southern Bulgaria. Over thirty kids were abandoned only in December 2008, most of them in the regions of Pernik and Sofia . " The reason is that these regions are best developed economically, which explains higher birth rates. The abandoned kids age from a couple of...